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Introduction
I work at the Department of Educational Sciences, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. My research focuses on teachers' work ability, its antecedents and outcomes, using the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. I also study career adaptability during educational and labor market transitions and the social adaptation of refugee students. I welcome collaboration and networking, especially in work ability research—feel free to connect!
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January 2017 - present
Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- http://pedagogika.phil.muni.cz/en
October 2009 - December 2016
Mendel University in Brno, Institute of Lifelong Learning
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Education
September 2006 - December 2009
Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
Field of study
- Education
Publications
Publications (33)
The present study examined the relationships of career adaptability and self-esteem with life satisfaction among emerging adults and the mediating effect of work values on these relationships. Five hundred and twelve emerging adults between the ages of 18 and 25 who graduated from vocational education and training were enrolled. Participants comple...
Maintaining and promoting teachers' work ability is essential for increasing productivity and preventing early exit from the teaching profession. This study aimed to identify the predictors of work ability among upper-secondary school teachers and examine the mediating role of burnout. A large and diverse group of Czech upper-secondary school teach...
Background. Children and adolescents currently spend a great deal of time at school and teachers are viewed as a source of social support in different areas of their personal development, such as their career adaptability.
Objective. To provide insight into the way students in secondary vocational education perceive teacher support and to explore t...
This study used a sample of 3,028 vocational upper secondary Czech students to validate the measurement model of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale—Czech Form, assessing concern, control, curiosity, and confidence as the psychosocial resources for managing occupational transitions, developmental tasks, and work traumas. We moreover examined the assoc...
Introduction
This study investigates the antecedents of perceived teacher work ability, a critical construct for addressing challenges associated with extending working lives and maintaining sustained professional engagement in the teaching profession. Grounded in the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, this cross-sectional study investigates the r...
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech Republic faced an unprecedented influx of Ukrainian refugees. This presented an immediate challenge for Czech schools. The present research aims to examine the social adaptation of Ukrainian students in Czech schools from the holistic perspective of headteachers, teachers, parents, and the students t...
I am keen to propose the establishment of a dedicated network aimed at advancing research on work ability. My vision entails a platform where participants can engage in discussions surrounding research findings, theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and tool development. Additionally, the network would facilitate opportunities for peer...
Teaching is a highly demanding profession; therefore, it is necessary to address how teachers cope with the demands of their job and how these demands affect their work ability. This study aims to investigate teachers' perceptions of work ability and the underlying mechanisms through which job demands influence their perceived work ability. The Job...
We provide a brief insight into the integration of Ukrainian refugees in school social networks in the Czech Republic following the mass migration caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Our sample contains twelve classrooms with a total of 266 students in grades 5 to 9; 21.05% of the students were of Ukrainian origin. We employed multiplex expo...
The present study aimed to examine the long-term associations between self-esteem and career adaptability and to investigate the moderating roles of parental and peer support in these associations. The two-wave longitudinal study used a sample of 3,126 graduates from vocational upper secondary education during their career transition. Questionnaire...
Career construction theory proposes that high career adaptability leads to positive adaptation outcomes during career transition. However, the specific pathways of how this happens remain underexplored. Drawing on the career construction model of adaptation, we hypothesized that career decision-making self-efficacy mediates the link of career adapt...
The upcoming special issue of the journal Studia paedagogica will focus on students and apprentices in general and vocational upper secondary education (ISCED 3). We ask a fundamental question: What are the causes of, consequences for, and solutions to success and failure for students and apprentices in upper secondary education?
This special iss...
ENGLISH: Living in today’s rushed time full of various changes increases the demands on the individual’s ability to adapt to these changes. Career adaptability plays an important role in coping with changing demands in the field of work. What is career adaptability? Why is it important, and what does it affect? The answers to these questions and ma...
Students’ high absenteeism represents a serious issue in Czech vocational education at the upper-secondary school level, and the overall number of missed lessons keeps rising. The aim of the presented study is to reveal and describe how vocational high school and training high school students perceive their absenteeism. Therefore, school absenteeis...
An important point on a career pathway is the completion of vocational education and training (VET) and the subsequent school-to-work transition. School-to-work transition is a long-term process with unclear boundaries involving a number of potentially difficult aspects. Psychological resources for successful school-to-work transitions are reflecte...
Aktuálním problémem ve středním odborném školství je narůstající meziškolní mobilita žáků. Cílem studie je proto zjistit příčiny vedoucí k reaktivním non-normativním přestupům žáků na jinou střední školu, dále identifi kovat strategie žáků a jejich dopady na meziškolní mobilitu. Metody: Zvolen byl kvalitativní přístup s využitím metody ohniskových...
Parents are considered to be the main stakeholders of adolescents who help them in their educational and career choice. Although theoretical and empirical studies point out the links between career-specific parental behaviors and career development of adolescents, there has been a lack of research in this area in the Czech Republic. One of the reas...
Background
An aging workforce is a global phenomenon with significant implications for European countries. Interventions facilitating the active performance of work until retirement age have consequently been developed. A new concept of work ability, which comprehensively describes the way to achieve a better correspondence between aging and work,...
This overview focuses on a multidimensional psychosocial construct of career adaptability, to which a special attention has been paid recently. Career adaptability indicates individual’s means of coping with current or anticipated challenges, changes and traumas in professional roles. The study provides a description of career adaptability construc...
Background
Under current European Union legislation, two severe hypoglycemic events within 12 months is grounds for driving license withdrawal. The aim of the study reported here was to determine whether fear of such a withdrawal could lead to patients concealing severe hypoglycemia from physicians, which could negatively impact further treatment d...
Cílem studie je zhodnotit postoje studentů pedagogicky orientovaných studijních programů k homosexualitě a zjistit, čím jsou ovlivněny. V příspěvku je argumentován význam tématu v rámci pedagogiky, podán přehled závěrů vybraných českých a zahraničních výzkumů vztahujících se k problematice postojů heterosexuálů k homosexualitě. Dále jsou prezentová...
The aim of this overview study is to synthesize Czech, Slovak and foreign empirical findings on the choice of further course of education and career. Attention is focused specifically on social influences as a psychological phenomenon affecting this decision-making process in lower secondary school students at the end of compulsory schooling. The m...
The paper deals with the transition of Czech students of lower secondary schools (ISCED 2A) and vocationally oriented upper secondary schools (ISCED 3A and 3C) between educational levels and to the labour market. The theoretical introduction describes the specifics of career decision making of Czech pupils and synthesizes some important empirical f...
Vzdělání je jedním z významných faktorů, který spoluurčuje sociální status jedince a umožňuje zmenšování nerovností ve stratifikačním systému. Tematickým ohniskem příspěvku je volba střední školy, neboť významně predeterminuje jeho budoucí uplatnitelnost na trhu práce a šanci uspět v přechodu do terciárního vzdělávání. Prezentovány jsou dílčí závěr...
The paper deals with the evaluation of the role of the significant others in the transition of Czech pupils between the lower secondary education (ISCED 2A) and the upper secondary education (ISCED 3). In the theoretical introduction, attention is paid to the importance of choosing a further course of education in human life, the specifics of the d...
The paper deals with the perception of Roma people by Czech students of education expected to perform future work with students where it is necessary to create equal opportunities for all students, regardless of affiliation to any group. In this short research we tried to capture the pedagogy students’ degree of ethnicization of problems associated...
The presented empirical study deals with the career decisionmaking of Czech students of secondary technical (ISCED 3A) and secondary vocational schools (ISCED 3C). In the given population it is a difficult decisionmaking process with several critical moments. What is presented are partial findings of students' and their parents' views on the autono...
The present study is an overview of formal and informal sources of information that are currently used by students of upper-secondary technical and vocational schools in deciding on the course of their education and careers, and their availability and effectiveness evaluate on the basis of respondents’ subjective assessment. It also maps informatio...
The contribution gives account of selected conclusions of a longitudinal research carried out in 2007 to 2009, focusing on the choice of further educational pathways with lower secondary school pupils. Many experts have pointed out that pubescents are not mature enough to make a responsible choice. In view of the characteristics
of the Czech educat...
Statistiky vykazují dlouhodobý nezájem žáků o studium technických oborů vzdělání a středních škol. Na tuto situaci musí reagovat základní školy, neboť výzkumy realizované v českém prostředí ukazují, že je zapříčiněn nejenom individuálními preferencemi žáků, ale i nepříznivou image technických oborů a vlivem nedostatečných či zkreslených informací....
První rozhodovaní o volbě povolání uskutečňují čeští žáci v posledním ročníku základní školy v nelehké době dospívání. Předkladaný příspěvek popisuje a hodnotí existující systém přípravy žáků základních škol na volbu povolání v České republice, největší problémy v této oblasti a seznamuje s využíváním služeb kariérového poradenství. V závěru jsou r...
